Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle. THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE. Simon & Schuster, 1st HC/DJ.

Description: Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1974. 1st edition. With number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 printed on the copyright page, which indicates that this is the correct 1st edition, 1st printing. This is NOT a book club book. This is NOT an ex-library book. Buyer beware: there were at least two later printings of THE MOTE IN GOD’S EYE, that were published in this exact hardcover format. There was also a book club edition of THE MOTE IN GOD’S EYE that used the same dust jacket artwork as the correct 1st edition, but the book club edition is slightly smaller than the trade edition. This is the real deal: the true 1st edition, 1st printing. SCROLL DOWN THIS PAGE IMMEDIATELY TO SEE THE CONDITION OF THIS BOOK AND THIS DUST JACKET. Larry Niven was born in 1938 in Los Angeles. He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a B.A. in mathematics (and a minor in psychology) from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. He also did a year of graduate work in mathematics at UCLA. In 1969 he married Marilyn Joyce “Fuzzy Pink” Wisowaty, a science fiction and Regency literature fan. Niven is the author of numerous science fiction short stories and novels. He has won many science fiction writing awards, including several Hugo Awards and several Nebula Awards. He was also involved in writing television scripts for such series as “Land of the Lost”, “Star Trek: The Animated Series”, and “The Outer Limits”. Niven is also known for his creation of what he calls “Known Space” and the “Known Space” stories and novels. Probably Larry Niven’s most well-known contribution to science fiction is his creation of the novel RINGWORLD, in which he envisions a ringworld, a band of material, roughly a million miles wide, which rotates around a star. Niven got the idea from an attempt to imagine a more efficient version of a Dyson Sphere. Larry Niven is the author of such great and famous books as WORLD OF PTAVVS, A GIFT FROM EARTH (his 2nd science fiction novel and his 3rd science fiction book), NEUTRON STAR, THE SHAPE OF SPACE, PROTECTOR, THE LONG ARM OF GIL HAMILTON, THE PATCHWORK GIRL, CRASHLANDER, RINGWORLD, THE RINGWORLD ENGINEERS, THE RINGWORLD THRONE, RINGWORLD’S CHILDREN, FLEET OF WORLDS (co-written with Edward M. Lerner), THE LEGACY OF HEOROT (co-written with Steven Barnes and Jerry Pournelle), LUCIFER’S HAMMER (co-written with Jerry Pournelle), OATH OF FEALTY (co-written with Jerry Pournelle), FOOTFALL (co-written with Jerry Pournelle), INFERNO, ESCAPE FROM HELL, THE MOTE GOD’S EYE (co-written with Jerry Pournelle; offered here), THE BURNING CITY, BURNING TOWER, BURNING MOUNTAIN, DREAM PARK, THE BARSOOM PROJECT, A WORLD OUT OF TIME, THE INTEGRAL TREES, THE SMOKE RING, THE SHAPE OF SPACE, ALL THE MYRIAD WAYS, THE FLIGHT OF THE HORSE, INCONSTANT MOON, NIVEN’S LAWS, and many, many more. Some of the awards and award nominations that Larry Niven has been honored with: 1967: “Neutron Star.” Hugo Award winner for Best Short Story. 1968: “The Jigsaw Man.” Hugo Award nominee for Best Short Story.a 1968: “Flatlander.” Nebula Award nominee for Best Novelette. 1969: “All The Myriad Ways.” Hugo Award nominee for Best Short Story. 1969: Larry Niven is honored by being named a Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society Award winner for Lifetime Achievement. 1971: RINGWORLD. Hugo Award winner for Best Novel. 1971: RINGWORLD. Nebula Award winner for Best Novel. 1971: RINGWORLD. Locus Award winner for Best Novel. 1972: RINGWORLD. Ditmar Award winner for Best International Science Fiction. 1972: “Inconstant Moon.” Hugo Award winner for Best Short Story. 1973: Larry Niven is honored by being named a Skylark Award winner for Contributions to Science Fiction in the Spirit of E.E. “Doc” Smith. 1975: “The Hole Man.” Hugo Award winner for Best Short Story. 1975: A HOLE IN SPACE. Locus Award runner-up for Best Single Author Collection. 1975: “The Hole Man.” Locus Award runner-up for Best Short Story. 1975: THE MOTE IN GOD’S EYE. (co-written with Jerry Pournelle). Hugo Award nominee for Best Novel. 1975: THE MOTE IN GOD’S EYE. (co-written with Jerry Pournelle). Nebula Award nominee for Best Novel. 1975: THE MOTE IN GOD’S EYE. (co-written with Jerry Pournelle). Locus Award runner-up for Best Novel. 1975: THE MOTE IN GOD’S EYE. (co-written with Jerry Pournelle). Jupiter Award (voted by instructors of science fiction courses in higher education) nominee for Best Novel. 1975: PROTECTOR. Ditmar Award winner for Best International Science Fiction. 1976: “The Borderland of Sol.” Hugo Award winner for Best Novelette. 1978: LUCIFER’S HAMMER. (co-written with Jerry Pournelle). Locus Award nominee for Best Novel. 1979: THE MAGIC GOES AWAY. World Fantasy Award nominee for Best Short Fiction. 1979: RINGWORLD. Seiun Award winner for Best Foreign Novel. 1979: “Inconstant Moon.” Seiun Award winner for Best Foreign Short Fiction. 1980: CONVERGENT SERIES. Locus Award winner for Best Single Author Collection. 1980: “The Locusts.” Analog Readers Poll Award runner-up for Best Novelette. 1981: THE RINGWORLD ENGINEERS. Locus Award 3rd-place winner for Best Science Fiction Novel. 1981: “A Relic of Empire.” Seiun Award winner for Best Foreign Short Fiction. 1985: THE INTEGRAL TREES. Nebula Award nominee for Best Novel. 1985: THE INTEGRAL TREES. Locus Award winner for Best Science Fiction Novel. 1985: THE INTEGRAL TREES. Science Fiction Chronicle Readers Poll Award 3rd-place winner for Best Novel. 1988: FOOTFALL. (co-written with Jerry Pournelle). Seiun Award winner for Best Foreign Novel. 1992: PLAYGROUNDS OF THE MIND. Locus Award runner-up for Best Collection. 1992: FALLEN ANGELS. (co-written with Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn). Prometheus Award winner for Best Novel. 1998: FALLEN ANGELS. (co-written with Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn). Seiun Award winner for Best Foreign Novel. 2001: “The Missing Mass.” Locus Award winner for Best Short Story. 2001: “Fly-By-Night.” Asimov’s Reader Poll Award 3rd-place winner for Best Novella. 2005: Larry Niven is honored by being named a Robert A. Heinlein Award winner for Hard Science Fiction Inspired Space Exploration Fiction. 2006: Larry Niven is honored by being named a Writers and Illustrators of the Future Award winner for Lifetime Achievement. 2015: Larry Niven is honored by being named a Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Award winner for Lifetime Achievement. Clearly Larry Niven is one of the greatest, most important, most famous, and most collectible science fiction and fantasy authors in the world (and of all time). Some of the awards and award nominations that Jerry Pournelle has been honored with: 1973: Jerry Pournelle is honored by being named a John W. Campbell Award winner for Best New Writer. 1973: “The Mercenary.” Hugo Award nominee for Best Novella. 1973: “The Mercenary.” Locus Award nominee for Best Novella. 1974: “He Fell Into a Dark Hole.” Hugo Award nominee for Best Novelette. 1975: “Extreme Prejudice.” Hugo Award nominee for Best Novelette. 1975: THE MOTE IN GOD’S EYE. (co-written with Larry Niven). Hugo Award nominee for Best Novel. 1975: THE MOTE IN GOD’S EYE. (co-written with Larry Niven). Locus Award runner-up for Best Novel. 1975: THE MOTE IN GOD’S EYE. (co-written with Larry Niven). Jupiter Award nominee for Best Novel. 1975: 2020 VISION. Locus Award nominee for Best Original Anthology. 1976: THE MOTE IN GOD’S EYE. (co-written with Larry Niven). Nebula Award nominee for Best Novel. 1976: “Tinker.” Hugo Award nominee for Best Novelette. 1976: INFERNO. (co-written with Larry Niven). Hugo Award nominee for Best Novel. 1977: INFERNO. (co-written with Larry Niven). Nebula Award nominee for Best Novel. 1977: INFERNO. (co-written with Larry Niven). Locus Award nominee for Best Novel. 1978: LUCIFER’S HAMMER. (co-written with Larry Niven). Hugo Award nominee for Best Novel. 1978: LUCIFER’S HAMMER. (co-written with Larry Niven). Locus Award nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel. 1979: Jerry Pournelle is honored by being named a Forry (Forrest J. Ackerman) Award winner (presented by the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society) for Lifetime Achievement. 1980: “Spirals.” (co-written with Larry Niven). Locus Award nominee for Best Novella. 1980: JANISSARIES. Locus Award nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel. 1980: JANISSARIES. American Book Award nominee for Best Science Fiction Hardcover. 1982: OATH OF FEALTY. (co-written with Larry Niven). Locus Award nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel. 1982: KING DAVID’S SPACESHIP. Locus Award nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel. 1983: OATH OF FEALTY. (co-written with Larry Niven). Prometheus Award nominee for Best Novel. 1986: FOOTFALL. (co-written with Larry Niven). Hugo Award nominee for Best Novel. 1986: FOOTFALL. (co-written with Larry Niven). Locus Award 3rd-place winner for Best Science Fiction Novel. 1988: THE LEGACY OF HEOROT. (co-written with Larry Niven and Steven Barnes). Locus Award nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel. 1989: FOOTFALL. (co-written with Larry Niven). Seiun Award winner for Best Foreign Novel. 1992: FALLEN ANGELS. (co-written with Larry Niven and Michael Flynn). Prometheus Award winner for Best Novel. 1994: THE GRIPPING HAND. (co-written with Larry Niven). Locus Award nominee for Best Science Fiction Novel. 1997: OATH OF FEALTY. (co-written with Larry Niven). Prometheus Award nominee for the Prometheus Award Hall of Fame. 1998: FALLEN ANGELS. (co-written with Larry Niven and Michael Flynn). Seiun Award winner for Best Foreign Novel. 2001: THE SURVIVAL OF FREEDOM. (co-edited with John F. Carr). Prometheus Award winner for the Prometheus Award Hall of Fame. 2005: Jerry Pournelle is honored by being named a Robert A. Heinlein Award winner for Hard Science Fiction Inspiring Space Exploration, presented by the Heinlein Society. 2006: Jerry Pournelle is honored by being named a Writers and Illustrators of the Future (for Stories and Art by Contest Winners) Award for Lifetime Achievement. 2010: Jerry Pournelle is honored by being named a Phoenix Award winner for Lifetime Achievement. 2016: Jerry Pournelle is honored by being a Hugo Award nominee for Best Short Form Editor. Clearly Jerry Pournelle is one of the best, most famous, and most collectible science fiction authors in the world. From the dust jacket: “ . . . ‘The best novel about human beings making first contact with intelligent but utterly nonhuman aliens I have ever seen and possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read . . . ‘ -- ROBERT A. HEINLEIN . . . Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle have combined their talents to write the most highly acclaimed science fiction novel of the last ten years, a modern masterpiece to rank with DUNE and STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND. The book begins far into the future when man has long ago conquered the galaxy and colonized the planets of the stars. Men have wandered through every edge and corner of their universe, have withstood every challenge and obstacle, and reigned supreme . . . Then one day, from out of nowhere, a space ship appears. It carries the emissaries of a world so totally alien in creed and culture, so terrifyingly strange and bizarre, as to elude all comprehension or understanding. And yet it is a world as utterly frightening and dangerous as our own, our equal in power and technology -- and perhaps in treachery and cunning . . . When the emissaries are accidentally killed and it is discovered that a danger signal has apparently been sent out, man is thrown into a headlong race, a race that leads man’s star ships even into the centre of a giant red sun, a race to find the world from which the ship has come and convince it of our goodwill . . . Above all, this new world, so frighteningly strange, so eerie and alien, must be seen and reported on. These weird new beings are far too dangerous, far too cunning, for mistakes in understanding . . . “ From the rear flap of the dust jacket: “A spellbinder, a swashbuckler . . . and best of all, it has a brilliant new approach to that fascinating problem — first contact with aliens.” — Frank Herbert, author of DUNE “I recommend it heartily as one of the most engrossing tales I’ve read in years . . . Fascinating.” — Theodore Sturgeon “This one is a winner!” — Robert Bloch, author of PSYCHO! “One of the finest science fiction novels I have ever read. It places Niven and Pournelle in the front ranks among writers in this genre.” — Jeff Rice, author of THE NIGHT STALKER, winner of the Writers Guild and Edgar Awards. “A rich, sweeping novel about first contact between humanity and aliens . . . iot’s very good indeed. A potential prize winner.” — Kirkus From the rear panel of the dust jacket: “ . . . “Larry Niven was formally trained as a mathematician, but ten years ago when he turned to writing he met with immediate success. He is now a three-time winner of science fiction’s Hugo Award and a one-time winner of the Nebula Award. His most famous and celebrated novel, RINGWORLD, won both. He and his wife live in Los Angeles, California.” “Dr. Pournelle holds degrees in engineering, psychology, and political science. He worked in space research and was active in both the Mercury and Apollo programmes. He was also Chief of Experimental Stress Project in the Human Factors Laboratories at the Boeing Company and was involved in the qualification tests for the original astronauts. He is the winner of the 1972 John Campbell Award and now lives in Studio City, California, with his wife and four sons.” _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I grade books and dust jackets: fine, near fine, very good, good, fair, and poor. I describe all faults. If you sell books on EBAY (or anywhere else), it is de rigueur not to list 1st printings of book club books as 1st editions (unless they ARE the 1st edition, which occurs only occasionally); also, a 1st edition, 7th printing, is not a 1st edition. Ex-library books must be noted as such since generally they are of little value to the collector of 1st editions. Condition is also very important to those collectors. Books and dust jackets must be described in detail. In other words, it is incumbent upon the SELLER to know what is and is not a 1st edition. Mistakes can be made (and corrected), of course, but if you DON'T KNOW, don't try to sell a book as a 1st edition. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ CONDITION: A GOOD+ to VERY GOOD- book in a GOOD to GOOD+ dust jacket. The book is tight and square in its blue quarter-cloth and blue paper boards binding with bright silver lettering on the spine of the book. There is no writing in the book; no bookplates; no remainder marks. Usually copies of this book show up with tanning at the edges of the boards and that is the case here, except the tanning is somewhat more pronounced than usual. The pages of the book are tanned, as is usually the case. There is a slight mustiness to the book. The dust jacket is not price-clipped and shows the correct 1st issue price of $9.95. The dust jacket has undergone some archival (non-acidic) restoration that has been accomplished by a professional paper conservationist. The restoration is mainly on the inside of the dust jacket at the upper and lower edges of the spine panel. There is also a repaired chip on the upper rear panel of the dust jacket. This is clearly not an excellent copy of this book, but it is more than just a serviceable copy at a reasonable price; FINE/FINE copies of THE MOTE IN GOD'S EYE sell in the $750.00+ range. The great and famous dust jacket design is by Robert Anthony. A MUST FOR THE COLLECTOR OF IMPORTANT MODERN SCIENCE FICTION 1st EDITIONS AND/OR THE COLLECTOR OF HUGO AND NEBULA AWARD NOMINATED SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS IN THEIR 1st EDITION STATE AND/OR THE COLLECTOR OF LARRY NIVEN AND/OR JERRY POURNELLE 1st EDITIONS! _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Additional photos are available upon request. I am continuing to list some of my best books (especially science fiction, fantasy, and horror 1st editions) on EBAY not so much as auctions (due to the fact that EBAY charges quite a bit to list items for reserve auctions), but more along the lines of listing my "catalogue" of books that I have for sale. I'm not going to "give" these books away, but my opening bids and Buy-It-Now prices are usually a fair amount below market value. Furthermore, however, for certain scarce books in great condition, I do expect to get close to what they're worth. 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